TOTM List

Here is the list of the monthly tobaccos, as taken from RickPiatt's original post.

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Ok guys, I tabulated the selections.

My criteria:

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* Tobaccos most chosen
* Everybody has something they've chosen in the list
* No one has everything they chose in the list
* Good selection from multiple blenders

Feb '08: McClelland Virginia #22
Mar '08: Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug
Apr '08: Dunhill Early Morning Pipe
May '08: A&C Peterson Escudo Navy De Luxe
Jun '08: Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake
Jul '08: Orlik Golden Sliced
Aug '08: Orlik (Peter Stokkebye) Luxury Navy Flake
Sep '08: Rattray's Marlin Flake
Oct '08: MacBaren Mixture Scottish Blend
Nov '08: MacBaren Navy Flake
Dec '08: Esoterica Tobacciana Penzance
Jan '09: Solani Silver

Flake Descriptions: ( taken from www.tobaccoreviews.c... )

McClelland Virginia #22 A balanced of Eastern and Middlebelt Virginias aged in cakes to develop their natural sweetness. A zesty tobacco with rich undertones, coarse enough to smoke on windy days outdoors, but easily rubbed-out to suit any occasion.

Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug A full bodied, medium to full strength pressed flake. Very complex from start to finish with a well balanced taste that both boldly spicy and subtlety sweet.

Dunhill Early Morning Pipe Sweet Oriental carefully blended with Bright and Red Virginias, pressed and lightly stoved. Great as the `first pipe` arousing the palate for the further pleasures of the day.

A&C Peterson Escudo Navy De Luxe This old classic is a Perique/Va curley cut tobacco.

Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake Made the same as Best Brown, choice Virginia Leaf pressed to a rich brown color & flavor.

Orlik Golden Sliced A blend of golden, fully ripe virginia leaves from the traditional districts of the United States. Natural sweetness and freshness.

Peter Stokkebye (Orlik) Luxury Navy Flake Very mature Old Belt flue-cured Virginia's spiced with Louisiana Perique.

Rattray's Marlin Flake A companion to Old Gowrie. A shade darker, greater strength, different aroma, but otherwise a tobacco in the same tradition.

MacBaren Mixture Scottish Blend A mild and lightly aromatic Scottish Blend, manufactured from ready rubbed, matured Virginia tobaccos and golden brown Burley grades, Cavendish and loose, ripe Virginia. Mixture is one of the most popular pipe tobaccos in the world, and is the leading brand tax free. A position which Mixture has been able to maintain through decades.

MacBaren Navy Flake A mild flake blended from the finest Burley tobaccos with added ripe Virginia’s and Cavendish. Navy Flake is light burning, making the lighting of the pipe very easy.

Esoterica Tobacciana Penzance A wonderful complex secret recipe of the finest Virginia, choice Turkish and Orientals and Cyprian Latakia, all hand blended together, hard pressed and broad cut into thick flakes. Long matured and easily crumbled to facilitate pipe filling.

Solani Silver Flake An incredible blend of premium dark red and sweet virginias from the "border belt", light yellow Virginia from South Carolina and dark-fired, spicy Kentucky. Slow burning and because no flavoring has been added, this blend has a real tobacco taste.

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Ok guys, thats a pretty awsome list. I'm excited to try many of them that I've not sampled before. I think with this list we really have a good chance to add some awsome tobaccos to our personal favorites this year!